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The First Book Of The Iliad Of Homer. By Omega.

(Hatchard.) — This "attempt professes to be a somewhat literal rendering of the First Book of the Iliad into the heroic couplet." Its author's interest in Homer has been revived......

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Abyssinia : its Past, Present, and Probable Future. By Rev. Dr. Maryoliouth. (Macintosh.)—The story here summarized and originally delivered as a lecture is but too well known.......

- Translations Into English And Latin. By C. S. Calverley,

late Fellow of Christ's. College, Cambridge. (Deighton and Bell, Cambridge ; Bell and Daddy.)—This is a charming volume, which deserves the attention of all scholars. Mr.......

Rocks Classffred And Described. By Bernhard Von Cotta. An...

edition, by Philip Henry Lawrence. Revised by the Author. (Long- mans.)--The English , editor of this learned treatise on lithology has been assisted in his labours by the......

Erasmi Colloquia Selecta. Arranged For Translation And...

E. C. Lowe, D.D. (Parker.)—Dr. Lowe, the excellent Head Master of the Hurstpiorpoint Middle School, who by his judicious management of that institution popularized the idea in......

The Calcutta Review, 1866. No:85. (lepage.)--this Number...

contemporary contains two interesting sketches of-worthies of the Indian past and present. The story of Lord Lake is well-told, and it is one of those stories that will bear......

- The.diuine Government. By Southwood Smith, M.d. Fifth...

(Trabner.)—Dr. Southwood Smith was perhaps the 'originator of the school of thought that finds it impossible to reconcile with the attributes of God'the doctrine of eternal......

Remains Of The Early Popular Poetry_ Of England....

edited, with introductions and notes, by W. C. RAOUL 4 vols. (J. R. Smith.)— That easy writing makes hard reading is a proverb of which none but "a critic can, as we had......